Templeton's Jail cell: If you get arrested on a Friday, you will probably spend your time in the Athol State Police lockup until Monday morning.
If you are a qualified para-medic looking for work, Temple seems to need one - see the latest Templeton Town Administrator's weekly report. I hope all the shifts are covered beginning on July 1, 2018, as Templeton did pass an override to pay for that.
from the Town Administrator:
Weekly Report: Met w/DPW team. Sweeping runs behind due to staffing vacancy and maintenance
needed on equipment. Have authorized the use of two Saturdays of overtime to try to get it caught up
Perhaps it is time to do a couple of things; first, contract out the street sweeping so it can get done, and secondly, use some free cash and chapter 90 money and build a salt storage shed and switch to road salt and skip the sand. Templeton can talk with the Hubbardston highway department and see how to do that and get some information on savings and other important work getting done when the crew does not have to spend weeks or month on sweeping streets. Time for the selectmen to manage, you know, their job.
Templeton's Jail cell: If you get arrested on a Friday, you will probably spend your time in the Athol State Police lockup until Monday morning.
ReplyDeleteWhy???? This is partly why I didn't feel this was a good use of the money. The cell requires staffing as I assume a prisoner cannot be left locked in a cell in an empty building. Staffing to support the cell increases the cost of policing Templeton which was not discussed or factored into anything I saw regarding the building of the cell.
It seems our plan for the new Police Station, needs a revision considering the State is building a regional lockup ! This will help with picking up and dropping off of people who are required to be in Court ! So, why are we putting ourselves deeper in debt ?Remember what the MFOB said ? Just a hint, (too much debt!) Remember that ! Just thinking, what do you suppose the interest rate will be, by the time we get a bond rating ??
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